A Filipino lawyer's musings on theology, law and everything else.

My vocation has become clearer as the years go by: to study the unchanging God without something else to do, some pragmatic reason or result. This is what I feel most called to do: SIMPLY ENJOY THE STUDY OF GOD – not write about it, not view it in relation to its political residue or […]

How disgraceful is the lawyer whose dying breath passes while at court, at an advanced age, pleading for unknown litigants and still seeking the approval of ignorant spectators. – Seneca, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE

Giving attention is an act of love and gratitude. When we give attention to something, we in a sense bestow worth on it; we affirm its value. And it is also an act of gratitude, because we thereby appreciate its worth. To be clear, it is gratitude towards God from whom every good and perfect […]

I’ve just finished reading Alan Jacobs’ A Theology of Reading: A Hermeneutics of Love. It’s a book I need to reread in order to understand it better. But I’ve already learned a number of valuable things from it. Such as, read with this motivation: Love for God and love for neighbor. Whether you eventually agree […]

And therefore, Lord, your judgments are terrible, because your truth is not my property nor the property of this man or that man; it belongs to all of us whom you publicly call into communion with it, warning us in most terrible terms that we must not hold it as private to ourselves lest we […]

Christians overcome their fears by looking not only at the written Word, the Bible, but also at the incarnate Word, Jesus Christ. Through his sovereign and creative power, God is able to give us his saving Word, human and divine, written and writhing on the cross. – Timothy Keller, The Songs of Jesus (April 30)

Alive the grace of God in me Though Sin may rage ferociously. Grace shall not falter, shall not fail, And in the end it will prevail! Though bruised and battered Grace may be Underneath Sin’s wild melee: Let bloody kicks and punches fly, ‘Tis all in vain – Grace cannot die. Thus, bleeding, fallen in […]